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#1

“For me, running is both exercise and a metaphor. Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by bit I raise the bar, and by clearing each level I elevate myself. At least that’s why I’ve put in the effort day after day: to raise my own level. I’m no great runner, by any means. I’m at an ordinary – or perhaps more like mediocre – level. But that’s not the point. The point is whether or not I improved over yesterday. In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be.”
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

tags: raise, running, self

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#2

“Struggle is the food from which change is made, and the best time to make the most of a struggle is when it's right in front of your face.

Now, I know that might sound a bit simplistic. But, too often we're led to believe that struggling is a bad thing, or that we struggle because we're doing something wrong.

I disagree. I look at struggle as an opportunity to grow. True struggle happens when you can sense what is not working for you and you're willing to take the appropriate action to correct the situation. Those who accomplish change are willing to engage the struggle.”
― Danny Dreyer

tags: adversity, running, struggle

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#3

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

tags: fear, grief, sorrow

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#4

“I'm lonely. And I'm lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be this lonely because it seems catastrophic.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Dry

tags: loneliness, lonely, sad, sadness, sorrow

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#5

“Time Does Not Bring Relief

Time does not bring relief; you all have lied
Who told me time would ease me of my pain!
I miss him in the weeping of the rain;
I want him at the shrinking of the tide;
The old snows melt from every mountain-side,
And last year’s leaves are smoke in every lane;
But last year’s bitter loving must remain
Heaped on my heart, and my old thoughts abide.
There are a hundred places where I fear
To go,—so with his memory they brim.
And entering with relief some quiet place
Where never fell his foot or shone his face
I say, “There is no memory of him here!”
And so stand stricken, so remembering him.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay, Collected Poems

tags: heartbreak, memories, poetry, sorrow, yearning

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#6

“Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;
Thy fate is the common fate of all,
Into each life some rain must fall”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ballads and Other Poems

tags: heart, life, poetry, sorrow

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#7

“That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. But even though he had always been poor, he was a happy man and rarely shed a tear. So he found ways to make himself sad so that his tears could make him rich. As the pearls piled up, so did his greed grow. The story ended with the man sitting on a mountain of pearls, knife in hand, weeping helplessly into the cup with his beloved wife's slain body in his arms.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

tags: contentment, cring, fables, greed, poverty, sorrow, tears, wealth

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#8

“Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings

tags: heart, solitude, sorrow

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#9

“Do you think it’s easy for me? No, I don’t remember you. I don’t remember holding you or talking to you or falling in love with you—but I walk around with a giant hole in my heart all the time. I feel your absence every second of the day. It aches and nothing soothes it. Losing you is bad enough, but I don’t even get the comfort of remembering that I had you once.
-Haden”
― Gwen Hayes, Falling Under

tags: demon, love, sorrow

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#10

“Sorrow comes in great waves...but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us. And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.”
― Henry James

tags: sorrow

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#11

“It’s not that we have to quit this life one day, it’s how many things we have to quit all at once: holding hands, hotel rooms, music, the physics of falling leaves, vanilla and jasmine, poppies, smiling, anthills, the color of the sky, coffee and cashmere, literature, sparks and subway trains... If only one could leave this life slowly!”
― Roman Payne, Hope and Despair

tags: beauty, death, dying, life, loss, love, regret, sorrow, time

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#12

“Chase away sorrow by living”
― Melissa Marr, Darkest Mercy

tags: darkest-mercy, faeries, sorrow, wisdom

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#13

“It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: advice-for-daily-living, fear-and-loathing, grief, inspirational, sorrow

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#15

“When clouds of pain loom in the sky
When a shadow of sadness flickers by
When a tear finds its way to the eye
When fear keeps the loneliness alive
I try and console my heart
Why is it that you cry? I ask

This is only what life imparts
These deep silences within
Have been handed out to all by time
Everyone’s story has a little sorrow
Everyone’s share has a little sunshine

No need for water in your eyes
Every moment can be a new life
Why do you let them pass you by?
Oh heart, why is it that you cry?”
― Javed Akhtar

tags: courage, eyes, imparts, inspitarional, love, pain, relationships, silence, sorrow, sorry, tear

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#16

“Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: faith, inspiration, life, sorrow, wisdom, worry

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#17

“And of course she understood now why her body wanted to run whenever he appeared. It was a correct instinct, for there was nothing to be got from this but sadness.”
― Kristin Cashore, Fire

tags: love, pain, sorrow

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#18

“I decided it is better to scream. Silence is the real crime against humanity.”
― Nadezhda Mandelstam, Hope Against Hope

tags: silence, voice

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#19

“Silence is so freaking loud”
― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

tags: just-listen, loud, owen, sara-dessen, silence

2302 likes

#20

“Never miss a good chance to shut up.”
― Will Rogers

tags: advice, funny, reticence, silence

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#21

“I don't think..." then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

tags: mad-hatter, remaining-silent, reticence, silence

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#22

“When I pronounce the word Future,
the first syllable already belongs to the past.

When I pronounce the word Silence,
I destroy it.”
― Wisława Szymborska, Poems New and Collected

tags: future, silence

1837 likes

#23

“He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.”
― Elbert Hubbard

tags: silence, understand

1245 likes

#24

“Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis, words mean nothing. They are labels we give things in an effort to wrap our puny little brains around their underlying natures, when ninety-nine percent of the time the totality of the reality is an entirely different beast. The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.”
― Karen Marie Moning

tags: actions, labels, promises, reality, silence, soul, truth, words

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#25

“You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No.”
― Alison McGhee, All Rivers Flow to the Sea

tags: expectations, powerful, silence

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#26

“In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.”
― Rumi

tags: silence

596 likes

#27

“The cruelest lies are often told in silence.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers

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#28

“It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.”
― Victor Hugo

tags: honesty, silence, truth

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#29

“When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.”
― Yevgeny Yevtushenko

tags: censorship, lies, lying, silence, truth

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#30

“Away with them, away; we should not believe fairy stories if we wish to be good. Think of them as persons from the fairy wood.”
― Stevie Smith, Selected Poems of Stevie Smith

tags: devil, fairies, god, gods, i-was-so-full, religion, the-devil

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